§16-22-2. Program to combat intellectual disability or other
severe health hazards; rules; facilities for making
tests.
The State Bureau of Public Health is authorized to establish
and carry out a program designed to combat intellectual disability
or other severe health hazards in our state's population due to
phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, and certain other
diseases specified by the State Public Health Commissioner, and may
adopt reasonable rules and regulations necessary to carry out such
a program. The Bureau of Public Health shall establish and
maintain facilities at its state hygienic laboratory for testing
specimens for the detection of phenylketonuria, galactosemia,
hypothyroidism, and certain other diseases specified by the State
Public Health Commissioner. Tests shall be made by such laboratory
of specimens upon request by physicians, hospital medical personnel
and other individuals attending newborn infants. The State Bureau
of Public Health is authorized to establish additional laboratories
throughout the state to perform tests for the detection of
phenylketonuria, galactosemia, hypothyroidism, and certain other
diseases specified by the State Public Health Commissioner.